This sharing of data across the agencies had apparently been initiated under Bush. It was part of avoiding the compartmentalization that had been identified as a factor in the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11. Obama continued work on developing this “new framework” throughout his administration. The upcoming rollout of the new rules was announced in February of 2016 and was projected to happen within months. The rule change was put in place in January of 2017 as Obama was on his way out the door.
If this is all true, then the idea that the new rules were inspired by the intent to damage Trump would seem to be false.
He could have left it for Trump to implement. But his antipathy towards Trump is obvious now, regardless of his lying rhetoric about wanting to help Trump, and that appears to be his motivation to implement it before he left.
This relaxing of the rules about sharing raw data is now what's causing the intelligence to be passed around and leaked to the press. To the detriment of Trump.
Call it what you will, all I have to know is that Obama was involved and that taints whatever reason he gave for doing this as he walked out of the WH for the last time. Nothing was done under Obama without an ideological bent to it.
Obama wasn't just some innocent bystander in this leak mess. He enabled it to damage Trump and further his own globalist goals.